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Preparation and Characterization of C60/Graphene Hybrid Nanostructures
Published on: May 15, 2018
Atomic-scale mechanical properties of orientated C60 molecules revealed by noncontact atomic force microscopy
Rémy Pawlak1, Shigeki Kawai, Sweetlana Fremy
1Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingbergstrasse 82, 4056 Basel, Switzerland. remy.pawlak@unibas.ch
Abstract:
In this work, the mechanical properties of C(60) molecules adsorbed on Cu(111) are measured by tuning-fork-based noncontact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM) and spectroscopy at cryogenic conditions. Site-specific tip-sample force variations are detected above the buckyball structure. Moreover, high-resolution images obtained by nc-AFM show the chemical structure of this molecule and describes unambiguously its orientations on the surface.
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